The Kirk of Calder is the Church of Scotland
Parish Church serving the communities of Mid Calder and Pumpherston
and is located on Main St., Mid Calder, West Lothian, EH53 0AN, Scotland. UK

Services are held every Sunday morning at
10.30am, (an extra family service is held at 9:30am in the summer
months)

Our Minister is Rev. John M Povey
MA. BD.
You can phone/fax him on +44 (0)1506 882495 or

Visitors will of course always be made
most welcome to any Sunday morning service!

YYYVisitScotland attraction and is open to the public on Sunday Afternoons (from
April to
September) between 2 and 4pm. Admission is FREE!
The church won the
West Lothian Award for Conservation in 1992. Previous visitors include John
Knox, James Paraffin Young, David Livingstone and Frederick Chopin - and we
look forward to meeting you too!

You can
make a 'special' appointment to visit at other times by
contacting the Church Officer (Bobby Ross 01506 880207)

Photos - lots of new
photos and slideshows of the Church interior and exterior here

Planning a Wedding, Christening
or Funeral? - See Services Page for more
info. The church can accommodate approx. 400 people.

We are looking for photos past
and present of weddings or other events in the Church for our
photo album

More photos of the Church
have been added to the Photo
Gallery, Thanks to photography
student and member Robert Spiers, who was tasked to
photograph "anything that didn't move" and has come up
with some more spectacular photos including features and carvings
you may never of seen before. There are now over 200 photos, and
we are still looking for photos of past and present weddings and
other events for the album. Click here to
visit the photo album page.

Click
for map and directions to Church. The Postcode for GPS users is EH53
0AN. Parking is available on Main Street 50 metres South of
the the church. Extra parking available in the Glenalmond Hall car
park 150 metres to the North on Main St.

If you would like to hear the
background music that used to be automatic Click here to start the music (A new browser window will open, just minimise this and you
will go back to this page and still hear the music)
(The tune is 'Cannon in D Major' by Johann Pachelbel)

NEW
- Rev Povey has recently transcribed the names from the church's War
Memorials and they are now listed on a page on this site - War
Memorials

Click
here to read the Church of Scotland press release regarding the
Moderator's visit
to the Kirk of Calder in Sept 2010 where he held Communion on the 450th
anniversary of what is thought to be the same place the very first
reformed celebration of Holy Communion.

The Kirk of Calder is a Scottish
Registered Charity - Nr. SC013461

If you are a Facebook user you can now
Interact with the Kirk on our on our Facebook page and be sure to
"like"
us to get update

The Sunday afternoon opening
of the Church hosted by The Friends of the Kirk of Calder now
closed for the season and will start again next summer. It may be
possible to arrange a special visit by contacting the
Friends Co-ordinator John Jamieson on .01506 411772 or e-mail jamiesonj49@yahoo.co.uk

3 star STB attraction

Fair
Trade Cafe every Tuesday 10am-12noon in the
Glenalmond Hall - Home baking and Fair Trade products - All
proceeds go to the work of the Vine Trust.

There is an Old
Maps page showing some historical maps of Mid Calder in 1580, 1757
and in 1853

The organ is by James
Conacher, 1888.

There
are a number of Publications on the history of the church and
village that are now available (perhaps for a gift?)
through the website- click for Publications . We can even sent these
overseas.

View
how the church has been used as a Teaching Project for year 7 pupils Jim
Fanning, Assistant Head teacher of Tideway Community School has created
an excellent educational site, using our church as the basis, for use
by Year 7 pupils studying aspects of church life. Not only does it
find an interesting and entertaining way to learn about our Church's
history but you can even take a moving 360 degree picture view of the
church interior and is well worth a visit

Rev
Povey's son Colin has recently graduated from Glasgow
School of Art and has captured his dad in oil (below)
.

James
Hendrie ,one of our Elders, also is a professional writer and
he has recently penned an article for Scottish
Home & Country Magazine titled "WITCHES,
COMPOSERS AND PREACHERS - THE STORY OF KIRK OF CALDER" It is a
balanced and interesting article on the Kirk and now
you can read it here or click "The Kirk Story" on the
left.

Variety Night on Thursday 24th
April at 7pm Tickets £12 (including buffet) being held at
Pumpherston Golf Club

The Kirk
of Calder have recently begun a project to link up with a
community in Oldeani, Tanzania. This involves funding
the building of a children’s home there between now and the
autumn of 2017, at the cost of £85,000. Since the launch of
the project in September 2014, the
fund has now (at 29/03/15) reached £15,257 (see graph)
Note this is before Spring Fair proceedsRecent
events the Bluegrasss Gospel Concert
14th
March raised £926.00, The Rotary
Club of Livingston raised £1,500 and the Spring Fair
on 28th March provisionally raised over £2,000 (final amount to
follow)

Joinhe
'Friends of Kirk of Calder' (and
help organise the Sunday afternoon church opening).
The "Friends" recently handed over a cheque of
£600 they have raised for the Church as a result of sales of booklets etc.- (Contact Bobby Ross 01506 880207)

Click here to purchase the Friends' Publications on the Church History

Publications
include books on all aspects of worship: there are prayer
books, hymn books, other worship materials, books for worship leaders, for
prayer groups and for individuals;
books of spiritual poetry; children’s books; and some books on
other things you may be interested in, such as music, biography and
Scottish history

There are special offers, extracts and
reviews. You will find information on authors and on book-related
events, and the site will continuously grow and develop to meet your
needs.

The
online shop can be found by clicking on the shop door or this link

More
info about the Kirk of Calder

Making
a donation and Gift Aid

Think we're stuffy? - then
check out our Humour Page and see how we can laugh at
ourselves!!

Quick Links to some of the Internet's QUICK LINKS' TO SOME OF THE INTERNET'S CHRISTIAN RESOURCES :

Have you a contribution
for the Parish Magazine? - (4 issues each year),
then you can e-mail the Editor, Elizabeth Hendersonhere

The Church can claim back all the tax paid
on any of your contributions, including those of you using
weekly Free Will Offering Envelopes, provided you are a UK
taxpayer and you complete a Gift
Aid Declaration.

Click
here for More information on
Gift Aid or to make a single
Donation to the churchClick
here for a Gift Aid Declaration Form
and/or Standing Order
Mandate

Please
consider making this declaration as it can benefit the church to
the extent of approximately a further quarter of your contribution !...... and 'thank you most sincerely' for any donation!

Aerial view

We are now featured on "Sacred Scotland" which is a website
that aims to be a starting point to access information on Scotland's
churches of all denominations.Click here to
visit

This website was first created in September 1998 and
fully redesigned in 2008, and since then updated weekly ...now over
14 years online!